bower

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n. 凉亭, 树阴处

词形变化

bowers 复数 bowering bowers 三单 bowering 现在分词 bowered 过去式 bowered 过去分词

别名

bowre bougher

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A bedroom or private apartments, especially for a woman in a medieval castle.

    闺房

  2. 2.

    A dwelling; a picturesque country cottage, especially one that is used as a retreat.

    文学
  3. 3.

    A shady, leafy shelter or recess in a garden or woods.

  4. 4.

    A large structure made of grass, twigs, etc., and decorated with bright objects, used by male bower birds during courtship displays.

    生物 动物学
  5. 1.

    A peasant; a farmer.

  6. 1.

    Either of the two highest trumps in the card games euchre and five hundred (where the joker is omitted).

  7. 1.

    A type of ship's anchor, carried at the bow.

    航海 交通
  8. 1.

    One who bows or bends.

  9. 2.

    A muscle that bends a limb, especially the arm.

  10. 1.

    One who plays any of several bow instruments, such as the musical bow or diddley bow.

  11. 1.

    A young hawk, when it begins to leave the nest.

    体育
v.
  1. 1.

    To embower; to enclose.

  2. 2.

    To lodge.

    废旧

词汇关系

名词

同义词 3

arbor arbour pergola

上位词 2

frame framework
动词

同义词 1

embower

上位词 4

enclose close in inclose shut in

相关短语

bower anchor bower bird n. [鸟] 园丁鸟；澳洲产的一种鸟 bower anchors bower vine bower vines bower birds (bower-bird 的复数) n. [鸟] 园丁鸟；澳洲产的一种鸟 Bower Ashton lady's bower right bower left bower best bower virgin's bower [网络] 铁线莲 diddley bower bridal bower

词源

From Middle English bour, from Old English būr, from Proto-West Germanic *būr, from Proto-Germanic *būrą (“room, abode”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian Búur (“storage room, utility room; cage”), German Bauer (“birdcage”), Old Norse búr (“cage”) (Danish bur, Norwegian Bokmål bur, Swedish bur).

来源：wiktionary